Trees Fight Urban Heat

City people are more prone to heat-related diseases and even death due to the thinning of the ozone layer. Other elements that can lead to such ailments are poor heath conditions, presence of air conditioners, changes in season temperature, age of the population and the urban heat island effect. With such factors, too much heat can also raise the pace of the creation of ground level ozone or smog which adds as another hazard to public health and to the ecological community.

For most individuals living in the urban areas in the United States, the so called heat island is a developing distress. City and suburban folks experience hotter temperature than those who live in uptown locations. The constant industrial and business development leading to the establishment of more buildings and factories resulting to the decline of forests and green fields and meadows triggers the escalation of temperatures that causes high levels of air pollution, demand in energy, cost in air conditioning, illnesses and mortality rates.

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are encouraging cities to initiate common sense and costless methods to hopefully lessen the ill effects of the urban heat phenomenon. Planting more trees such as oak, mahogany, acacia, and maple is what they consider as the prime and effective bastion in the battle against urban heat. The recommended saplings are huge and leafy that employs the solar energy to germinate, gives shade and infuses water vapor that condense the air. Trees aside from an additional attraction to the vicinity also ameliorates the quality of the air that we breathe.